The Mindset of College Students
Every person has at one point in his or her educational career procrastinated. Even the smartest kid in class who seemingly does all their work on time have procrastinated. Now in a college environment, the lack of motivation can lead to deadly consequences. The lack of desire to accomplish due to the lack of preparation, personal issues, and stress can prevent a successful educational career. Motivation is a serious factor which delegates how a person would do in college.
"Motivation is an effective factor stimulating a person to display a behavior voluntarily" (Cavusoglu and Karatas 736) and is a behavior that is found that most dropouts lack and graduates have. Now motivation is divided into three sub-groups, intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation (Burt, et al., 46). These three motivation types are what makes up the self-determination theory (Cavusoglu and Karatas 736), or the theory of motivation, and can be incorporated into the similar discussion, the persistence theory (Martin, Galentino, …show more content…
According to Frank Daley, most students entering, or currently attending college, do not know why they are attending (2). With no goal or direction, students are lost and have no reason to believe that they need to do well in school or even attend at all. Moreover, “the lack of direction”, according to Daley, will cause students to divert their focus on several agendas and lead to more problems (2). For instance, students who do not know whether they should spend more time at school, socializing, or working will eventually develop time-management issues and procrastination, leading to the degradation of one or more of the categories listed (Daley, 3). Students who do not have a goal-oriented motivation, or intrinsic motivation, before they enter a higher education tend to have a much greater difficulty in school and could potentially lead to dropping
Every person has at one point in his or her educational career procrastinated. Even the smartest kid in class who seemingly does all their work on time have procrastinated. Now in a college environment, the lack of motivation can lead to deadly consequences. The lack of desire to accomplish due to the lack of preparation, personal issues, and stress can prevent a successful educational career. Motivation is a serious factor which delegates how a person would do in college.
"Motivation is an effective factor stimulating a person to display a behavior voluntarily" (Cavusoglu and Karatas 736) and is a behavior that is found that most dropouts lack and graduates have. Now motivation is divided into three sub-groups, intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation (Burt, et al., 46). These three motivation types are what makes up the self-determination theory (Cavusoglu and Karatas 736), or the theory of motivation, and can be incorporated into the similar discussion, the persistence theory (Martin, Galentino, …show more content…
According to Frank Daley, most students entering, or currently attending college, do not know why they are attending (2). With no goal or direction, students are lost and have no reason to believe that they need to do well in school or even attend at all. Moreover, “the lack of direction”, according to Daley, will cause students to divert their focus on several agendas and lead to more problems (2). For instance, students who do not know whether they should spend more time at school, socializing, or working will eventually develop time-management issues and procrastination, leading to the degradation of one or more of the categories listed (Daley, 3). Students who do not have a goal-oriented motivation, or intrinsic motivation, before they enter a higher education tend to have a much greater difficulty in school and could potentially lead to dropping